Discovery Box 3: Straws

Things have been a bit quiet in our house as Little Pop has been struggling with a virus for the past few days. Big Sis has been keeping herself busy with her toys and books and the newest Discovery Box.

This one was lots of fun and so easy! The box contained 100 coloured straws, a cheese grater, plastic bowl with holes in the bottom, netting fruit bag and a plastic pot into which I’d cut a few holes in the lid.

The key to success with these boxes so far has been giving her a range of things to play with that she doesn’t normally have access to. The straws were a complete hit! She almost didn’t need anything else in there.

I really love your discovery boxes too. I think it’s great fun that that you wrap them up. Thanks for sharing all your ideas with the Play Academy. Hope you’ll come and join us for the Carnival of Junk Play tomorrow.

Anna! I’m glad I found your site. Our daughters are about the same age, and it looks like we’re up to a lot of the same things. I love this discovery box idea, and can just picture the piles of straw all over my floor, and adding to the pile of blocks, glitter glue bottles, and cardboard boxes! 😉 I look forward to reading more of your posts.

I’ve done a similar thing with dried spaghetti and a spice jar with holes in the top. Marlow has loved that activity for months!! It never fails to keep him entertained for at least 10 minutes. I even took it on a long haul flight we had – fabulous!

straws!! brilliant. How come I never thought of that. I did similar activity with popsicles before. will try with straws this time. i would love to put a link to this post on my blog. http://completetoddler.wordpress.com/thank you for the idea.

We tried the straw activity today. I just put some pictures on my blog about it. We are going to continue this week and I still want to put holes in some container lids to see how they use those. Thanks for the great idea!

This looks like a super cute idea. But giving a toddler a Cheese Grader dose not sound like a smart or safe idea to me…. I cut my self all the time on that stupid thing cooking and i know how to use it lol. IDK what would happen if i gave it to my son…..

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